Astounding

Famous quotes containing the word astounding:

“The very deaf, as I am, hear the most astounding things all round them, which have not, in fact, been said. This enlivens my replies until, through mishearing, a new level of communication is reached.”
—Henry Green (1905–1974)

“Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“An astounding crate full of air.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)